1880 in Canada

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Events from the year 1880 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Lieutenant governors

Events

Full date unknown

Arts and literature

  • March 6 – The Royal Academy for the Arts is founded.

New books

Births

Deaths

Historical Documents

Statute creates CPR as government-supported private company for benefit of B.C. and N.W.T. [1]

Chief Ocean Man and another Nakoda (Stoney) describe attack on their people by Gros Ventre and Mandan from U.S. side of border [2]

British order-in-council transfers Arctic islands to Dominion of Canada [3]

Editorial on complaints of French-Canadians [4]

Walt Whitman calls Thousand Islands most beautiful place on Earth [5]

To avoid bankruptcy caused by westward expansion, Canada must declare independence [6]

Britain gifts part of HMS Resolute to U.S. for saving that Arctic exploration ship [7]

References

  1. An Act Respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway. Accessed 14 October 2019 http://members.kos.net/sdgagnon/cpa.html
  2. "No. 343; [letter of] Sir Edward Thornton to Mr. [Wm. M.] Evarts[, Department of State, Washington]," Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States[....] (1882), pgs. 570-72. Accessed 8 December 2019 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1881/d347 Subsequent correspondence: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1881/d354
  3. Gordon W. Smith, "The Transfer of Arctic Territories from Great Britain to Canada[...]," Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1961), pgs. 62-3. Accessed 14 October 2019 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66710/50623
  4. "A Morbid Nationalism," Canadian Illustrated News (November 11, 1880), pg. 2. Accessed 27 September 2019 http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3557130
  5. Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada (1904), pgs. 24-5. Accessed 27 September 2019 http://archive.org/stream/waltwhitmansdiar00whituoft#page/24/mode/1up
  6. William Norris, "Canadian Nationality; A Present-Day Plea," Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review (February 1880), pgs. 113-18. Accessed 23 April 2020 https://books.google.ca/books?id=lsYhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA113&dq=Canada&hl=en&sa=X#v=onepage
  7. United States Department of State, Index to the Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Third Session of the Forty-Sixth Congress, 1880-'81 (No. 354, August 26, 1880), pg. 525. Accessed 27 September 2019 http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS188081v01&isize=L&submit=Go+to+page&page=525
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